Shalini A | Remote DWeb Fellow 2024

I finished my Bachelors of Engineering in Tumkur and joined Servelots and Janastu soon after. And that was 15 years ago. After realizing that my role is essential for keeping the programs of working with communities alive I decided to get involved with all activities of the organizations including keeping the account books ready! Now I am working with the village women in various capacities - craft center to local mesh deployment, while also handling the overall management of activities of the organizations. One of them being the decentralization of a platform that caters to keeping the local knowledge, much of which also has personal stories of women. I work with the women listening to their stories and keeping it for next iteration. In the meantime, the stories are shared with the people the women trust and annotated so they can get back fast to things that are of interest to them. This also means that the annotations will be media that will be tagged. Most women are not literate so we have a way of asking them to associate with a person who they trust and can use the system. We are looking at ways to include them as first class users of the system - with face and voice recognition to start.

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